Thread 127459920

Why does nobody on /mu/ talk about him? He's amazing.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PRu3NyeVrt4

>>127459920 (OP)
Because this board doesn't like music

For the record I post a thread about him nearly weekly. Don't usually get s lot of responses but I'm trying to improve the board that used to be special. What he did with one guitar is amazing, vast stories and feelings without a word being said

>>127459920 (OP)
I see more threads about him than jimi fucking hendrix

>>127459920 (OP)
This shit sounds transcendental.

>>127459996
Oh, really? Somehow I haven't noticed. I'll pay more attention and post in your threads. Love me some Fahey.

>>127460058
I use the same balding picture of him and often post red pony or when springtime comes

>>127460012
Good.

>>127460079
What do you think about The Great San Bernardino Birthday Party?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aIgj2nP4E-I&list=RDaIgj2nP4E-I&start_radio=1

one of my proudest feelings as an oregonian is that thats where John Fahey chose to make his final resting place

>>127459920 (OP)
>Why does nobody on /mu/ talk about him?
I reject your hypothesis

I can't be bothered with instrumental music. Maybe some classical.

>>127460865
as big of a fan as I am (i cycle through 10 records of his) I hadn't heard it til today. Sounded great but as with most Fahey I find repeat listens only enhance them. I got into him through Fare Forward Voyagers, then I got into America, God Time and Casualty, and finally Legend of Blind Joe Death is my current favorite (also enjoy great santa barbara oil slick live album). I love listening to him but ill say trying to play his songs is an amazing sensation when you put the right effort into it
https://vocaroo.com/1jNvZqYeVc3A

almost pivoted my entire music path to try and do more of this but I lack the ear for learning without tabs

>>127460914
Damn, that sucks for you. Instrumental music is the best kind of music.

>>127461755
It's a very entry level normie take, fahey sings and emotes more with his guitar than any singer in a band

City of Refuge [Tim/Kerr, 1997]
"My category is alternative, period," avers the last intelligent person to make such a claim in this millennium. He doesn't want to be folk or New Age, and who can blame him? But if he were, some rich dunderhead might insist that he treat blues and pop rarities to his dolorously deliberate touch, like on those old Reprise albums Byron Coley sneers at. Instead he's encouraged to stagger toward an obscure destination mere mortals would noodle around, dumbfounding bystanders with the scraps of sound that flake off his beard as he goes. Once in a while tunes poke through the refuse, notably that of "Chelsey Silver, PleaseCall Home." These occasion proud huzzahs from young fools who can only forgive themselves such emoluments after a good cleansing scourge of spare solo indirection. Their self-disgust is our loss and Fahey's ticket to wankdom. Even the meandering Cul de Sac get more out of him. C+

>>127461768
Scaruffi esque descriptions in that one

Yellow Princess is peak.

Fahey is a great example of why shaving it off is not better for a balding man. This dude owned it and it's his iconic look

>>127461768
this was well past Fahey's prime so it shouldn't be used as a representation of his capabilities

>>127461830
Shaving your head is the gayest possible thing a norwood can do.

>>127461841
Exactly unless you're Jason Statham owning the balding look makes you look less insecure than the shave it off group

>>127461765
Yeah, agreed. For me it's not just instrumental, it's specifically one-instrument music. There's a peculiar intensity in that distillation. Like painting in monochrome, you can't rely on color for contrast, so everything has to come from inside. That pressure forces tighter, more inventive and concentrated music. That's the best way I can describe it. I'll always argue for the supremacy of one-instrument music.

>>127460914
That's a shame. Instrumental music is timeless and more powerful and emotional than vocals with lyrics specifically telling you what to feel when you listen to the music. You will understand one day

>>127460968
Amazing rendition of Wine And Roses, which later got renamed as The Red Pony, which got eventually renamed as The Approaching Of The Disco Void. Fahey literally stopped playing that one because he got scared by it in the end.

>>127459920 (OP)
For me, it's Sandy Bull

>died 2001 at age 62
he really didn't live that long tbqh

>>127461839
City of Refuge was his first good album since 1983. In fact his last period has some of his career's highlights such as Womblife or The Mill Pond:
https://youtu.be/L3Gc9h88w4k?si=QsFh_64iY1GaTXQo
https://youtu.be/eqAO4Aota_Q?si=F0y4_t8vGVJPAvPe

For the new ones, please see pic rel

This is what I have currently. I also have the Jo Ann Kelly (blues album w/ yellow cover) he's on a few tracks.

>>127461949
Yeah I first knew it as red pony and I'd describe it as such and eventually someone told me it was wine and roses originally. Repurposing old songs is respectful because sometimes a song wasn't been perfected when you put it to tape and it takes the right mind to reexplore your ideas

>>127462023
That's the best album by "John Fahey & His Orchestra". Here's my Fahey collection :)

>>127461908
Fahey had me convinced that it was 2 acoustic layers to achieve his sound until I got more into him. I adore that bass dynamic he has going while he paints out the high end

>>127462014
Saved this chart for further use I have like 12 in my library but the newer ones don't get much play

>>127459920 (OP)
is this an album or just a single track?

>>127462138
Single track. Album it's named the same.

>>127462192
wtf. seems a big hodge podge. i like the playing but uhh seems a little scattered regarding arrangement. this is fingerpicked i'm assuming

>>127462218
I remember reading somewhere that Fahey improvised the whole thing while drunk, but since he achieved to compose big suites before and after this one I don't know if I buy that. If that's true this is one of the best recorded improvisations in music history. My favourite tracks of the album are Knott's Berry Farm Molly and Sail Away Ladies.

>>127459920 (OP)
Fucking love him

I never make threads on this board

>>127462023
Based

>>127459920 (OP)
I have nothing to say about him, i do love his music, but i don't play guitar and i dont understand a lot of things he does.

>>127461820
That track is great but it's probably his weakest record from the 60s decade.

>>127462537
playing guitar certainly makes a difference, for non musicians it takes high attentiiveness to pay attention to the melodic subtleties but I'd say anyone who really likes music could do it, its not far from how jazz uses non typical melodies to create more unique feelings, that but he does it all with a singular instrument, Fare Forward Voyagers is a great song to see what hes capable of